Participations aux Awards
Dreamlines of Africa
Inspired by Dream/Songlines of Native Australians, I am trying to read cultural landscapes and draw similar ‘Dreamlines’ with stories. My latest novel, ‘Catch Your Thunder: Rendezvous with the End,’ starts the ambitious project of ‘landscape-designing’ the continent of Africa to reconnecting communities and help preserve and promote our common heritages.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
2
New Sight Eye Hospital
Republic of Congo
The New Sight Eye Hospital is a pioneer in the Republic of Congo, delivering non-profit eye services to one of the most impoverished areas. The hospital is focused on phenomenological principles, addressing sensory experience in an environment that not only heals, but celebrates the wonderful gift of sight.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
9
The isle of Catalysis
Cape Verde
Fairy tales are seen as outside of everyday concerns because they are seen to be unbelievable, disobeying the rules of time and space. Using the concept of a catalysis, the project address créolisation within the Cape Verdean archipelago in the form of a fictional tale.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
7
Sarah Bartmann Centre of Remembrance
South Africa
Sarah Bartmann Centre of Remembrance In an open international architectural competition, the Department of Arts & Culture required the design of a remembrance centre that would honour and document the life of Sarah Bartmann as well as the heritage of the Khoi-San people.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
23
Wazi Ukweli Hub
Uganda
Located at the heart of Kampala is an Innovation Hub for creatives. This hub aims to break the illusion between finished products and process as it pays tribute to the work put in by creatives. With sustainability strategies imbedded in the design, it is a prototype that can be replicated.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
240
Superdome Ifakara
Tanzania
A decade-long relationship links the rural town of Ifakara in Tanzania with architecture students from Dar es Salaam & Lucerne/Switzerland. "Superdome" is the result of a 2-week international design/build workshop: an innovatively designed, cheap and effective multipurpose hall made of local bricks and teakwood poles.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
451
Village Health Works Staff Housing
Burundi
Embedded in the rural Burundi mountainside, this 18-bed Staff Housing is a romance between East African elemental aesthetics and inventive off-the grid sustainability. The design responds to the concern that just because the villagers are poor, there was no reason why their housing could not be forward thinking and beautiful.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
22
Kasbah OF Knowledge - Middle school
Morocco
"The kasba of knowledge" is a college with architectural vocabulary inspired by the Moroccan heritage. Protected by a "wall" of ocher concrete and wrapped in a white "moucharabieh", this space aims to create an propitious atmosphere to learning by stimulating curiosity and the appetite for discovery.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
9
Chimphamba Village Church
Malawi
The community of Chimphamba (Malawi) have been gathering for years in a church building that was near to collapse. The community has also outgrown the dilapidated building. A4AC designed and managed the construction of this building inspired by the existing and familiar elements in the community.
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Total des voix du People’s Choice:
15